New Books

Autoban: Form, Function, Experience.   Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden.   Full Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart.   Richard Diebenkorn.

One Day Something Happens: Paintings of People.   Agnes Martin.   Pack Your Life 3.   Surface by Søren Solkær

 

These new books are on display on the 2nd floor of Llandaff Library until Wednesday 13th April. If you would like to read more about them, or place a reservation, follow the links to the library catalogue METSEARCH

New Books

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast

I Swear I Saw This by Michael Taussig

Type Team: Perfect Type Combinations by Tony Sedden

At Night by Alex Quick and Jim Nunn

Futures of Surrealism: myth, science fiction, and fantastic art in France, 1936-1969 by Gavin Parkinson

The Reflective Journal by Barbara Bassot

Christina Ramberg: corset urns & other inventions, 1968-1980

Mark Wallinger by Sally O’Reilly

Wrinkles by Paco Roca

 

These new books are on display on the 2nd floor of Llandaff Library until Wednesday 13th April. If you would like to read more about them, or place a reservation, follow the links to the library catalogue METSEARCH

By Cardiff born James Richards . . . .

” James Richards: To Replace a Minute’s Silence with a Minute’s Applause is the final of four unique monographs documenting four contemporary artist’s selections from Moscow’s V-A-C collection and their subsequent display at Whitechapel Gallery during 2014/2015.

Creating an immersive environment artist James Richards accompanies Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait with a sound installation of public silences – acts of mourning, remembrance, or suspenseful pauses in films. Singers inhale and pause before breaking into song while church bells fill the gallery with ambient sound.

As well as full-colour installation photography, the publication includes an interview with the artist, an essay by sound curator David Toop exploring the interactions between sound, silence and painting, and an essay by art historian Barbara Dawson on Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait (1953)” (Whitechapel Gallery)

This publication by Cardiff born James Richards is a new addition to Cardiff Met’s library. Richards was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2014. He now lives and works in London and Berlin.

New Books in February

River of Fundament   Daniela Gullotta    On Being an Artist    Theaster Gates    Love is Enough   Passages

All on display until 17th Feb . . . follow the links to the library catalogue for more information.

New Books: Textiles

In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant’s sample book acquired in 1972 by the V & A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices…

…follow the link to the library catalogue to read more about this beautiful book.

 

Print: Fashion, Interiors, Art

Print is an exciting and dynamic area of design, with new analogue and digital technologies opening up a wealth of creative possibilities for designers in textile and non-textile media. Witty, hyperreal and luxurious print designs are being used by fashion designers and in interiors, while artists are harnessing the technology in their work to stunning effect. This showcase of the best printed textiles from around the world is divided into three key areas: fashion, interiors and art.

These are on display until 17th February.

 

 

 

 

 

Badger & Mouse

Badger and Mouse, two new books in the wonderful Reaktion Books ‘Animal’ series. If you like these, you may also be interested in . . . Fly, Dog, Crow, Ant, Eagle, Pigeon, Hare, Snake, Swan, Cockroach and Rat! All are available in Cardiff Met’s Llandaff Library – search our catalogue SUMMON for more details of each of these titles. Badger and Mouse are currently on display and will be available to borrow from 16th February.

‘Animal is a pioneering series from Reaktion Books. The first of its kind to explore the historical significance and impact on humans of a wide range of animals, each book in the series takes a different animal and examines its role in history around the world. The importance of mythology, religion and science are described as is the history of food, the trade in animals and their products, pets, exhibition, film and photography, and their roles in the artistic and literary imagination’.

Christmas is coming . . . . . .

Cardiff School of Art & Design (CSAD) Library News

So don’t forget to renew your library books before the holidays!

  No library books were harmed in the making of this tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Artist’s Book conference: discount booking ends Friday

Special Collections and Archives / Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau

Many thanks to those who have already registered for the conference Livres d’Artistes: the Artist’s Book in Theory and Practice. For those who have yet to do so, the last day for booking at the discounted rate is FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER. Conference registration will cost £60 (£25 student/unwaged) until Friday, and £75 (£40 student/unwaged) after that date. A booking form can be downloaded from the website.

Full details of the conference programme and our plenary speakers can also be found on the conference website. Hurry – places are filling up fast!

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Cakes in the Library?????

What next? Cakes in the Library at Llandaff? Surely not!

Our wonderful library staff are running a cake sale until 12 noon today in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research. Be quick . . . . they are selling . . . . well . . . . like hot cakes!

New Books: on display now

ZERO: countdown to tomorrow, 1950s – 60s

Hello World: Where Design Meets Life

The World-Wide History of Beads: ancient, ethnic, contemporary

The Sensory War 1914 – 2014

Communication Design: insights from the creative industries

Unashamed Artists: a celebratory miscellany of advertising art

Tracey Emin: The Last Great Adventure is You

A Violent Embrace: art and aesthetics after representation

 

 

Click on the title to follow the link to the library catalogue to find out more about these titles or to place a reservation.